Is this story accurate?
- Thread starter Big Cowboy
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Abraham de Moivre
Well-Known Member
Define "accurate"
Is homelessness up 18%? Probably not. The Homeless used to be an unseen and uncounted problem. The probably of Homlessness and vagrancy in Downtown LV has been a problem for years.
Lately, with the "clean-up" efforts downtown, the city's investment in the Freemont Street Experience, and new investors and money starting to rebuild Downtown, the homeless population has come into the spot light.
Plus, recently several shelters and organizations that have helped the homeless have shutdown, pushing them more visibly onto the streets.
The City about a year ago started cracking down on the homeless, giving them jaywalking tickets, puting them into jail for loitering, etc. whenever they were around Freemont Street. I guess the expense of continually jailing them on petty offenses (and making them more 'countable') is catching up with them.
Go down Freemont Street to the Western Hotel and Casino. You will see the same faces as always. There are probably a few more, thanks to the current Administrations kinder gentler policies. I guess they are waiting for the trickle down from the top tax bracket tax cuts.
Is homelessness up 18%? Probably not. The Homeless used to be an unseen and uncounted problem. The probably of Homlessness and vagrancy in Downtown LV has been a problem for years.
Lately, with the "clean-up" efforts downtown, the city's investment in the Freemont Street Experience, and new investors and money starting to rebuild Downtown, the homeless population has come into the spot light.
Plus, recently several shelters and organizations that have helped the homeless have shutdown, pushing them more visibly onto the streets.
The City about a year ago started cracking down on the homeless, giving them jaywalking tickets, puting them into jail for loitering, etc. whenever they were around Freemont Street. I guess the expense of continually jailing them on petty offenses (and making them more 'countable') is catching up with them.
Go down Freemont Street to the Western Hotel and Casino. You will see the same faces as always. There are probably a few more, thanks to the current Administrations kinder gentler policies. I guess they are waiting for the trickle down from the top tax bracket tax cuts.
Sonny
Well-Known Member
My take on the situation
> The number of homeless people is up 18 percent...
No kidding! What do you expect when you introduce all this 6:5 BJ and SF21 crap?!
> which in turn has caused vagrancy crimes, trespassing, panhandling and sleeping and
> urinating in public to skyrocket.
I've seen frat boys doing all of this stuff too.
> The situation is at its worst downtown, where lesser casinos and attractions
> struggle in the shadow of "the Strip."
And don't forget about the Horseshoe's rip-off games.
> So as part of a downtown cleanup effort, the city attorney is cracking down
> on homeless criminals because the old policy of arresting people, letting
> them back on the street and then re-arresting them for other offenses later
> was wasting money and resources.
Plus the Western was probably complaining about the police bothering their "customers."
> Critics say incarcerating the homeless costs money too, and putting them in
> jail doesn't solve anything.
They should start their own blackjack seminars! They could talk about how they used to be homeless but now their "miracle system" made them millions of dollars. John Patrick has been shamelessly ripping people off for decades and they still haven't arrested him. Maybe if the Better Business Bureau would crack down on such false advertising then there would be less bankrupt people in Vegas.
> The number of homeless people is up 18 percent...
No kidding! What do you expect when you introduce all this 6:5 BJ and SF21 crap?!
> which in turn has caused vagrancy crimes, trespassing, panhandling and sleeping and
> urinating in public to skyrocket.
I've seen frat boys doing all of this stuff too.
> The situation is at its worst downtown, where lesser casinos and attractions
> struggle in the shadow of "the Strip."
And don't forget about the Horseshoe's rip-off games.
> So as part of a downtown cleanup effort, the city attorney is cracking down
> on homeless criminals because the old policy of arresting people, letting
> them back on the street and then re-arresting them for other offenses later
> was wasting money and resources.
Plus the Western was probably complaining about the police bothering their "customers."
> Critics say incarcerating the homeless costs money too, and putting them in
> jail doesn't solve anything.
They should start their own blackjack seminars! They could talk about how they used to be homeless but now their "miracle system" made them millions of dollars. John Patrick has been shamelessly ripping people off for decades and they still haven't arrested him. Maybe if the Better Business Bureau would crack down on such false advertising then there would be less bankrupt people in Vegas.
Automatic Monkey
Banned
Three-Card Monte
Why don't we teach the bums to deal Three-Card Monte, like they used to do in NYC?
Believe it or not that was my first advantage play experience. I figured out how to beat the game. This was their M.O.- they would deal the cards, and as you were watching it was obvious how where the target card was. Or so you think. One of his shills steps forward and picks one of the wrong cards. Then he invites you to play- you have a choice between where you "saw" it go, and another card. Guess which one you pick.
You only get to do this once. It's a dangerous game because a lot of those guys are drug dependent and desperate. Remember that his shills will only let you play when they know they have you beat.
Why don't we teach the bums to deal Three-Card Monte, like they used to do in NYC?
Believe it or not that was my first advantage play experience. I figured out how to beat the game. This was their M.O.- they would deal the cards, and as you were watching it was obvious how where the target card was. Or so you think. One of his shills steps forward and picks one of the wrong cards. Then he invites you to play- you have a choice between where you "saw" it go, and another card. Guess which one you pick.
You only get to do this once. It's a dangerous game because a lot of those guys are drug dependent and desperate. Remember that his shills will only let you play when they know they have you beat.